Reference number EACTFOI - 03102020
Information requested

Documents held by the Commission in relation to the design, implementation, and approval of electronic voting for the 2020 legislative assembly election.
The specific documents I request are:
- Documents related to the following determinations:
1. Electoral (Computer Program) Approval 2020 (No 1)
2. Electoral (Computer Program) Approval 2020 (No 2)
3. Electoral (Electronic Devices) Approval 2020
which were relied upon by the commissioner to determine that Computer Programs and Devices used for the 2020 election satisfy section 118A 2(d) of the Electoral Act 1992:
"the program will… not allow a person to find out how a particular elector cast his or her vote".
- Documents (including internal and external correspondence, procedures, software requirements, designs, and code) regarding electronic vote secrecy in the 2020 election, concerning:
1.   any decisions or changes to electronic voting made by the commission in response to the vote secrecy issues disclosed by T Wilson-Brown in 2018, or any other voting secrecy issues disclosed to Elections ACT from the 2016 election to the data of this request
2.   the collection, transmission, and storage of detailed timestamps of individual voter roll mark-offs
3.   the collection, transmission, and storage of detailed timestamps of each individual vote cast
4.   limiting the number of people who have access to the detailed voter and vote data in 2. and 3., limiting the risk of data breaches, and ensuring that any accesses are discovered and reported (excluding designs and code)
5.   the publicly released summary voter frequency data
6. any publicly released detailed vote preference data, including any shuffling or randomisation of that data, and any analysis of data fields which would allow members of the public to restore the original order, or otherwise link this data to individual voters

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